Los Angeles Times via Chattanooga Times Free Press
SEMINOLE COUNTY, Fla. — George Zimmerman is back in jail.
Zimmerman, the onetime neighborhood watch volunteer charged with killing Florida teenager Trayvon Martin, turned himself in Sunday at the Seminole County jail in Sanford, Fla., two days after a judge ordered his $150,000 bond revoked when prosecutors said he wasn’t as poor as he had claimed.
He had been in hiding since he was released from jail on bond in April, and his attorney expects that another bond hearing will determine whether Zimmerman stays in custody until his expected trial in 2013.
Zimmerman, 28, is charged with second-degree murder in the Feb. 26 shooting of Martin, 17, who was unarmed. He has admitted shooting Martin, but says it was self-defense.
“The vast majority of the funds in question are in an independently managed trust, and neither Mr. Zimmerman or his attorneys have direct access to the money,” Zimmerman’s defense said in a statement on its website, which expressed hope that Zimmerman’s “voluntary surrender to Sanford police will help demonstrate to the court that he is not a flight risk.”
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